NOVEL PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1949

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First-edition cover

George Orwell’s novel of a dystopian future, 1984, was
published on June 8, 1949. The novel’s all-seeing leader,
known as “Big Brother,” became a universal symbol for
intrusive government and oppressive bureaucracy.

George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair ) who was born in India,
the son of a British civil servant.

Photograph of the head and shoulders of a middle-aged man, with black hair and a slim mustache
Eric Arthur Blair
(25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950)

 

1984 - George Orwell

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